St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Artwork: St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata

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Artist: Giotto

Created: 1297-99

Medium: Fresco

Dimensions: 270 x 230 cm

Location: Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Italy

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“Giotto di Bondone (c. 1270-1337) worked in Tuscany, Naples, northern Italy, and possibly in France. A friend of kings of popes, and Grand Master of Florence, his name was renowned. This is one of twenty-eight frescoes depicting the Legend of Saint Francis in the Upper Church in San Francesco, twenty-five of which were by Giotto. Initially an apparence of Cimabue, Giotto later took over the painting of the frescoes, which are his earliest known work in the medium.

Each fresco depicts an event in the saint’s life.

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata shows the saints having an apparition of an angel with six wings, and the crucified figure. After the vision, his hands and feet received the stigmata — the marks of Christ’s crucifixion. In Giotto’s rendition of the scene, rays from the vision fall onto St. Francis’s hands and feet. The rocky landscape glows with the light of revelation.

Without a technical knowledge of perspective or anatomy, Giotto indicates space and, in the seated monk particularly, weight. In his later frescoes he fully explores the transmission of human emotions beyond the rhetoric of gesture, which inspired other Renaissance artists. Giotto left behind the rigid stylization of medieval art and broke new ground in terms of realism. In his fresco painting we can see an impetus, which developed during the Renaissance into a tradition that existed until twentieth-century Cubism. In his Decameron, written twenty-two years after Giotto’s death, Boccaccio recognized that the artist had resurrected the art of painting.”(WO)-Pre-Fifteenth century

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